The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-01-08

setting of the schooner Sarah Craig in gale of
Sandy Hook
August l. Arrival of the English cutter Galatca at
Marblehead. Mass.
August !. Samuel J. Tilden died at Greystone.
| August 6. Editor Cutting convicted at Paso Del
| Norte (MeXicol OF libeling Mexican citizen
August s. Potts and Hazlitt eoopcrs, passed
August 9. Several townships in Wisconsin burned
over by forest fires.
August TO- Rioting at Belfast Ireland.
August u. Arrangement in New York of Commits
sioner of Public Works Rollin NJ. Squire and Maui
rice C. Flynn for misdemeanor.
s. Davis Page assumed the Oillcc of Assistant
| United States Treasurer ut Philadelphia
August ID Collery explosion at Leigh, England.
Forty killed.
August i6 The DeKalb statue at Annapolis. Nd
unveiled.
Blue Hill Mountain Mass.
August 10. English Parliament opened.
August 20. Seven Anarchists in Chicago convicted
August 81 Trial race off Sandy Hook wen by yacht
| Mayfower.
Prince Alexander. of Bulgaria captured by Rms
sian consprators and carried away from Sofia The
conspirators proclaim that he had addicted and
| capture the government They requested that Rus
| STA assume charge of Bulgaria. A popular revolt
quickly overturned the provisional government and
| recalled Alexander who by the personal interior
ence of the Car finally forced to abdicate Sep
TENDER Sth.
| August % Collision of an excursion and news
paper train the Camden and Atlantic Railroad at
| Ancora. Seven injured
The Whirlpool Rapids Of Niagara swan by VIM.
August %. Editor Cutting released from imprison-
ment at Paso Del Norte. Mexico.
lives lost
August &c. Riot of striking street car hands On
| -Governor Hill removed Rollin NJ. Squire from
the position of Commissioner of Public Works. New
York.
August %. Lawrence Donovan jumped from
Brooklyn bridge.
August 80. Explosion in Fairview Colliery, Pa
Five killed and two injured
August 81. An earthquake shock felt throughout
nearly the entire portion of the United States east of
from the Gulf northward to the upper lakes, and
from points near the Mississippi eastward 10 the
Atlantic coast The shock was particularly severe
at points in the South and in Charleston, Savannah
Augusta and nearby places the shock was repeated.
Charleston was the centre of the disturbance and
suffered the greatest damage 1t was estimated that
twothrds of the houses there either entirely
\ demolished or rendered unfit for occupancy The
losses entailed calculated to into MILL
of dollars. Thirty-ive lives were sacrificed, and
n many of the inhabitants were forced by the destruc
ton of their homes to camp IN the streets and p9ie
| the entire months of September, October and No
| Tember.
| SEPTEMBER.
| / September / Seizure by Canadian authorities of
| the American schooner, Highland Lady, for fishing
within the three-mile imitoffP Prince Edward Island
| September Z. The first race for the America cup
won by the American yacht Mayhower, over the
| English cutter, Galatea.
| September s. Second race for the America cup, be-
| tween the May1ower and Galatca. The former sue
cessfu
| September 2S. The working men of New York
| nominated Henry George for Mayor.
September "a Forty five persons killed and six
teels injured by colliery explosion, in Schaike,
Germany.
OCTOBER.
octoberS 8. General Convention OF Knights of Labor
October I. Condemned Chicago Anarchists refused
new trial. and on October 9th they were sentenced
! to be hanged December Sd. An appeal being carried
to the Supreme Court a stay of proceedings was
granted.
| died.
October T. The villages of Sabine Pass and John
| sons Bayou, on the dividng-line, between Texas
and Louisiana, swept away by high tides. Great
loss of life in both places Severe storms also pre-
| vailed in the West
| October 81 An express train on St Louis and San
Francisco Railroad robbed of $4,000.
October 2s Bartholdi Statue of Liberty unveiled.
! NOVEMBER.
November l. Six thousand beef and pork packers,
| etc, in Chicago went on strike. W. -
/ Port Surveyor Beattie, of New York, shot by
| Louis Biercl, a discharged inspector.
The torch of the Bartholdi Liberty statue lighted
| for the first time.
The Government law taxing oleoaaEgine went
Novembe. A. Ey.kfderman McCabe, of New York,
charged with Receiving brides adjudSed insane;
November G. Harvard University celebrated its
November s. State of siege proclaimed in Bulgaria
Closing exercises of Harvards 250th anniversary,
| President Cleveland was present and took part.
November TO- Election of Prince Waideman, of
Denmark, to the throne OF Bulgaria. which he after
/
November II. Paul Bert scientist and statesman,
died in Paris
| November Is. Ex-President Chester y. Arthur
| died in New York.
November 10, nFihed ex;;Aldermen Tultgraf and
Duffy made confessions In New lCrk Court relative
! to Broadway Railway franchise.
November 81. Charles Francis Adams died in
| Boston.
| the Island of Socotra.
| November "a. The jury in case of ex-Alderman
McQuade, New York, disagreed.
November .. Gloucester. n. j.. visited BY cyclone
| November 26 Coliery explosion at Wilkesbarre,
| Pa. Thiry-two injured, twelve fatally.
DECEMBER.
December /. President Cleveland confined to his
room for two or three days by an attack of rheuma'
| tism.
| Blizzard in Ludington and Choboygan, Mich,
| and snow piled in immense drifts, Travel greatly
impeded, Three vessels on Lake Michigan driven
ashore,
| December Q. Colliery explosion in Durham, Eng.
Thirty men Instantly killed.
December 4. One and half acres OF land over nv
-EairuaetiDt Gollieay. near Pttston. Pa, eayct
molishing three dwelling houses the Inhabitants of
which narrowly escaped death.
Riot in Cors; twenty-five private citizens ana
policemen injured.
December s. Congress reassembled and listened to
the reading of President Clevelands message,
Sunday law strictly enforced in indianapolis.
Schooner Edith wrecked near Miquelon Island
and her crew of Is persisted.
Win. T. Price, Congressman from Wisconsin, died
in Eau Claire, aged g. years,
-Janes A. Wa!es, cartoon artist Or Ppek, The Judge
and other publications., died in New YORK
Samuel johnson, convicted Of the murder oil
John Sharpless denied new trial, at Media, Pa,
and sentenced to be hanged.
December 4 John L. Owens well known come
dian, died at his home in Baltimore aged 60 years.
Monster Conference of Liberal Unonists held i'll
London.
December T. Severe storm throughout the United
Kingdom, eliminating into terrific gale ~ the
southern counties OF England, Shipping was much
damaged especially in the British Channel, where
a number of vessels were WRECKED
December s. Rochester. n, Y, visited ny an cleo
trio storm, pronounced more violent than any
since the one which atloncd the Charleston earth
quake"
Joseph W. Harper, United States Consul at Mu-
mich, died.
December O. A locomotive on the Beech Creek
Railroad exploded, ut Jersey Shore Station, Penna,
killing four employes Of yhe road, ,os.
while attempting to assist distressed vessel, on
Southport England.
"A case of Burkeing occurred in baltimore,
Three negroes murdered au old White woman, III
order TO sell her body 10 u dissecting room.
December IS, The steamboat J; NJ. White was
burned whilst lying ct wharf at Blue Store, Point
Coupee thirty miles above Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Forty-tive lives were lost. The money value de-
stroyed estimated at S375, COO.
December Is McQuade the New York alderman.
convicted of bride taking. lie was sentenced, De-
eember 10Th, to seven years Imprisonment on III the
New York Pententiary and fined sotGsl.
December Is, MalShall \, Wilder; President of the
American Pathological Society, died at Roxbury,
December II. The bill to repeal the Tenure OF Of
fee act passed by the senate Of the United states
"A general army order issued adding Southern
California to the Department of Arizona, under
command of General Nelson A. Miles, and removing
MS headquarters 10 Los Angeles, VAL
December -. \ yeiy heavy snow storm ragged over
a large part of Germany All travel was blocked for
several days and ii is estimated that two hundred
people LOST their lives
LORD Randolph phGrenpllli rGesisns4 his seal in
the British Cabinet.
December IS Strike on Brooklyn City Railway
ended the same day by the company yielding to the
demands of the men:
December a, Great iiFa in Liverpool, England.
The extensive stores Of John Lewis 4 Co, entirely
destroyed. Loss, 81 000oOG;
December 25 The British ironolad Sultana ran
into and sunk the French steamer Nillede Victoria.
Two hundred and nifty persons Were on board the
Viii de Victoria, lnd many oil them were drowned.
December 26. General John ~ Logan, Senator from
Illinois, died, aged 60 years
December a. Capture OF five men accused of rob-
bling the express messenger of the St Louis and the
San Francisco Railroad Company on the night OF
October IS; $4,000 were recovered.
-Riollng of street car halfway stFikeFs at san
Francisco
December 90 Celebration of the seyenty-seventh
birthday OF Mr.. Wm f. Gladstone.
December 30 Large fire in London, England.
FIVE persons killed aud number injured.
December 81. Funeral of General John A. Logan
at Washington.
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